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Recalculating the Threat from Iran

I was watching the Iranian “students” storming the English Embassy and I got a blast from the past of the same “students” storming our Embassy 30 years ago.The students then as now are not really students but thugs and militia members. This time around they’re from the Basiji.

The story of Iran’s reckless disregard for the rules of struggle, diplomacy and war is deeply disturbing. Plotting to kill a Saudi Ambassador on our territory is transgressive and storming embassies yet worse. Up till now they have been a bad actor on the international stage but not crazy. They have used others to do the dirtiest of their dirty work but not put themselves in a position to take the full heat.

With considerable trepidation Israel and the United States have watched them as they built up a nuclear program but have been restrained by the belief that they were rational players on the world’s stage. With the assassination plot and embassy storming, this is no longer a safe calculation. The experts have to recalculate the threat from Iran since we can no longer count on it being restrained by international norms or even self-interest. This is a dangerous time, indeed.
2011 Jonathan Dobrerwww.Dobrer.com

I wonder if the Brits were emasculated as were the Americans — no ammunition for their weapons. Iran is trying her best to elicit a first strike from Israel or the US and then they would be the wounded and could rally all the other arabs to their cause.

Have they stopped to think what would be the final outcome of a nuclear holocaust? And how few people would be left to buy their oil? Or how many arabs would be annihilated?

No, they just want to continue rattling their sabers to see which nation is the first to be the chicken.